Bird's Eye View

The poet John Betjeman surveys house and garden through the centuries. Fortified castle, stately palace, village cottage, suburban semi and tower bloc...

Transport from the Iron Age to the Helicopter Age, from ridgeways to canals, railways to motorways. What we have gained and what we have lost in our s...

A journey up the spine of England, the 250-mile Pennine Way, along much of England's most striking countryside, and through every danger that threaten...

The fortifications that have successfully defended this island against invasion from Caesar to Hitler - and beyond. John Terraine surveys Roman forts,...

Historian Correlli Barnett traces the rise of British industry from early beginnings,in monks' forges and weaver villages, to pit heads and power stat...

From Cornish clifftops, wild and bare, to crowds at Weston-super-Mare, whatever paddles, surfs or sails, braves the waves or rides the gales; Bournemo...